Commutating dynamo-electric machine.



l K. SULZBBRGER. GUMMUTATING DYNAMO ELEGTRG MACHINE.

PPLIGTION FILED JAN. 16, 1906. 997,891 Patented. Dec. 29, 1908.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oErE.

KARL SULZBERGER, OF CHARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COMMITATING DYNAMQ-ELECTRIC MACHINE.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1908.

Application led January 16, 1906. Serial No. 236,334.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, KARL SULZBERGER, a citizen of Switzerland, residing at Charlottenn burg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Commutating Dynamo-Electric Machines, of which the following is a specification. f

My invention relates to commutating poles for dynamo-electric machines.

It has been proposed heretofore, for the purpose of improving commutation in dynamo-electric machines,` to employ a commutating pole or lug, placed between the main field coils of the machine, and energized by a coil in series with the armature connected to produce a ilux in the commutating pole of the proper amount and direction for reversing the currentin acoil short circuited by a brush in commutation. Since the coil on the commutating pole is in series with the armature, the commutating iield obtained is proportional to the armature cur-- rent for all loads, which is the desired. relation for proper commutation.

l have discovered that the best results are obtained. with commutating poles wl'lich do not produce a field of uniform strength. over their pole-face, 'but that for best commutation in a generator a coil should enter a strong field When it passes under the commutating pole, and that this field should become weaker toward the side on which the coil In a motor in which the direction of rotation for a given direction of current-ilow through the armature is opposite to the direction of rotation for a generator, the coil should enter a weak field and the field should become stronger toward the side on which the coil leaves the pole. If the variation in held-strength across the face of the pole in a circumferential direction is properly adjusted, much better commutation is obtained than with a commutating pole which ives a uniform field across its entire poleice. l have also discovered that it is advantageous so to arrange the commutating pole as to oder a high reluctance to a liux passing through the commutating pole from one side to the other due to the current in an armature conductor beneath the pole, since such an. arrangement gives a low reactance to a coil undergoing commutation beneath the pole. By properly slotting the commutatin pole, both the variation in held-strength an the high' reluctance to a flux passing'through the pole may be obtained. I

My invention, accordingly, consists in arranging the commutating poles with slots in axial planes; the slots bein dissymmetrical with respect to the axia plane passing through the middle of the ole.'

My invention will best e understood by vreference to the accompanying drawings, in

Which-5 Figure l shows somewhat diagrammatically a dynamo-electric machine provided with a commutating pole arranged in accordance with my invention; and Figs. 2 to 4 show modifications in the construction of the commutating pole.

AIn Fig. 1, F represents "tlre'eld structure provided-with the-usual'iield coils j". A represents the var'nntture provided with a 'comQ mutator a and commutator brushes t. C represents. a commutating'p'ole placed midway between the main {ield poles of the mau chine, carrying and energized by the coil c, which in practice is connected in series with the armature in the usual manner. The pole C, instead of being symmetrical with respect to the armature, has its magnetic material cut away in such manner that it lpresents a stronger field on its left-hand side as viewed in Fig. 1, than on its right-hand side. rl`he armature in this figure is supposed to be rotating in a clockwise direction, as indicated by the arrow which shows the direction of rotation for a generator, so that a coil approaching the commutating pole enters a strong field which grows gradually weaker as the coil advances across the pole-faceg this variation of field-strength, as heretofore explained, producing greatly improved commutation.

ln order to produce the dissyrnmetry ofthe arrangement ofthe magnetic material of the commutating pole with respect to the axial plane and passing through the middle of the pole, it may 'be slotted as shown in Fig. l,

the slots being more closely spaced toward one side of the pole than toward the other. These slots serve an additional purpose in oering a high reluctance to a flux passing through the commutating pole from one side to the other due to an armature conductor beneath the pole-face, and consequently decrease the reactance of a coil beneath the pole undergoing commutation.

4instead of employing4 uniform slots unevenly spaced, as in. Fig. 1, 1 may employ slots increasing in size toward one side of the pole, as shown in Fig-2, or in lace of axially slotting out the pole 1 may uild up one side of the pole of interleaved slabs of magnetic and non-magnetic material, as shown in Fig. 3. 1n this figure a block is set into one side of the commutating pole C comosed of slabs of magneticl material alternating; with non-magnetic slabs. By varying' the thickness of either or both of said slabs the held-strength across the pole-face may he varied.

instead of the open slots shown in Figs. 1 and 2, closed slots or holes, as shown in Fig. 4, may be employed. Other suitable arrangements for cutting away the magnetic material on one side of the pole so as to pro- I duce the required dissymmetry will readily occur to those skilled in the art.

Although l have shown my invention in Fig. 1 applied to a machine of the usual type having projecting poles, my invention is equally appligable to machines of the type describedin tati-:nt No. 741,234, Deri, dated October 13, 1903, in which no projecting poles are employed, but in which the magnetic material is distributed substantially uniformly around the armature, and in which the commutating pole may more aptly be termed a lug than a pole. Consequently 1 do not desire to limit myself to the particular construction and arrangement of senesi parts here shown, but aim in the appended claims to cover all modifications which .are within the scope of my invention.

lWhat l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, isf- 1. 1n a dynamo-electric machine, a iield magnet, an armature provided with a commutator, and a commutating pole or lug slotted in axial planes, the slots beingA symmetrical with respect to the axial plane through the middle of the pole,

2. in a dynamo-electric machine, a iield magnet, an armature provided with a crn'n mutator, and a coinmutating; pole or lug' slotted in axial planes, the slots being ranged to cut away a greater amount of mag'- netio material on the side of the pole on which the armature conductors le ave the pele than on the other side.

3. In a dynamo-electric machine, iielrl magnet, an armature provided with a conn niutator, and a commutating pole or lugh slotted in axial planes, the slots heine` arranged to cut away unequal amounts of magnetic material on opposite sides of the axial plane passing through the middle of the pole.

1n witness whereof, i have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of December,

KARL SULZBERGER. lfVitnesses JULrUs RUMLAND, MAX HAMBURGER.. 

